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Thank you!!! Happy to see the lil snail up on the cover 🐚

i feel similarly. i can rationalize why im struggling with finding a job given **everything** but it’s really hard to not take it personally sometimes

I've be struggling to be honest, it's really hard after we have done everything we were supposed to and then we get to the finish line with what feels like nothing. I've been trying to take it day by day. Some days I am ok, some days I am sad (like yesterday).

Special Issue Cover of the journal Molecular Ecology. the cover photo is a collage of various organisms and figures from the issue. The special issue it titled: Ecology of Gene Expression

my first first-author paper is (kinda*) on the cover of molecular ecology!!!

*zoom in on the first picture in the second row
**together with a bunch of cool gene expression studies

really excited to dive into the special issue!! #Evolution #PopGen

me!!!

graduating PhDs… anyone has a clue on how to not despair about our job prospects right now?

(happy to just vent too!)

A nonbinary flag (horizontal bands of yellow, white, purple, and black) with the text "gender should have error bars" and and image of error bars of various sizes superimposed on it. This came about as a joke made in a nonbinary scientist group I'm part of and someone immortalized it in this image. It struck a chord with every single one of us

Today is international nonbinary peoples day, so I'm gonna share a bit about how I figured out that I'm nonbinary. To start, I didn't realize I was nonbinary until I was 35 years old. This was for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest was that I simply never had the words for it
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Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

I'm sadly leaving Hawaii and the USA today. This NYT article, with comment from me, @solilyquy.bsky.social and @leafwax.bsky.social, explains one (of several) reasons why. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

Excited to have presented our research on geographic differences in auditory properties of Carolina Chickadees at the Animal Behavior Conference! Grateful for the opportunity to share our work and connect with colleagues!
@animbehsociety.bsky.social

#ABS2025 #Bioacoustics #auditory #Chickadees

house sparrow

“high-grading bias is a concern whenever a small subset of markers are first chosen to explain differences among groups based on their degree of difference and are subsequently reused to estimate the degree of difference among those groups.”

‘Highly‐Informative’ Genetic Markers Can Bias Conclusions: Examples and General Solutions High-grading bias is the overestimation power in a subset of loci caused by model overfitting. Using both empirical and simulated datasets, we show that high-grading bias can cause severe overestimat...

New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!!

We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution

Evergreen reminder that wind turbines are not even remotely a leading cause of human-driven bird mortality. This is classic concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they really cared about birds they'd focus on domestic cats and building glass. And what's not shown here: climate change.

it’s still mind boggling to me that i AM a scientist and people are reading my work!!!!!

just got the nicest email!!

an undergrad is remaking a figure from my paper in their programming in R class and asked me for some help 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Thanks Brian!!!

just counting my joys where i can

some good news in the midst a lot of bad news this week:
my second chapter was accepted!!!!!

OMG

a hawaiian monk seal looking back over his shoulder in front of a large rock. someone scratched into the rock “will you marry me”. it looks like the seal is asking the question

👉🏼he has a question for u 👈🏼

photo of a juvenile laysan albatross sitting on the sand. the bird has some fuzzy hair around its face and down to its chest

photo of a juvenile laysan albatross sitting on the sand. the bird has some fuzzy hair around its face and down to its chest

mullet goals!!!! 💅💅💅

this is so cute!!

Wasn't sure it was possible for something to compare to my love of corn t-shirts. From www.stempotential.com/mission

squidward from spongebob squarepants is sitting in a cardboard box holding a cup of coffee ALT: squidward from spongebob squarepants is sitting in a cardboard box holding a cup of coffee

I'm looking for some colleagues interested in helping to start an initiative to seek private salary funding for Evolutionary Biology grad students, in collaboration with scientific societies like @asn-amnat.bsky.social . reach out if interested

Hey #evol2025! Interested in marine population genomics, range expanding species, speciation, genome assemblies? Come support my students!!

#EvolutionMeeting #marinespecies #populationgenomics

and the biggest insult is that Iranians aren’t even of Arab descent

A brown and cream mottled snail with a pale brown shell crawls along some moss.

It's always a good day to celebrate an endemic snail. Meet Nesiohelix swinhoei — found in Taiwan and nowhere else.

📷 naturalist121932 on iNaturalist
📍 Taiwan
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

🧪 there is not a single, agreed-upon definition of a species, or clear standards for when a (population of a) species evolves into a new species

photo of the crowd on a pedestrian bridge between lafayette and west lafayette indiana

solidarity from indiana!!!

you know shit is bad when this is the turnout in Lafayette, INDIANA